Fact #97928
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Short story:
The Beatles release Meet The Beatles, as their first album in the USA.
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David Crosby (The Byrds] : I was in Chicago, living with a British guy named Clem Floyd on Well Street, right in the middle of it all. I was singing at Old Town North and Mother Blues. I was trying to quit smoking, and the way I figured to quit was to buy a quarter-pound of pot, which I rolled and smoked every time I wanted a cigarette. I'm not saying to try this at home, kids - but it worked.
So I was in a high old state of affairs, and Clem walked in one afternoon with that first Beatles album, Meet The Beatles. He put it on, and I just didn't know what to think. It absolutely floored me - "Those are folk-music changes, but it's got rock and roll backbeat. You can't do that, but they did! Holy yikes!" I ate it for breakfast.
The Byrds never tried to imitate The Beatles, ever. We always had more ideas than we needed about how to do it our own way. I don't think anybody would say that The Byrds' stuff sounded like The Beatles' stuff. The Beatles certainly didn't think so. They told us they liked our music because it really was our music. Our own synthesis, our own mixture of the musical streams we'd been exposed to.
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So I was in a high old state of affairs, and Clem walked in one afternoon with that first Beatles album, Meet The Beatles. He put it on, and I just didn't know what to think. It absolutely floored me - "Those are folk-music changes, but it's got rock and roll backbeat. You can't do that, but they did! Holy yikes!" I ate it for breakfast.
The Byrds never tried to imitate The Beatles, ever. We always had more ideas than we needed about how to do it our own way. I don't think anybody would say that The Byrds' stuff sounded like The Beatles' stuff. The Beatles certainly didn't think so. They told us they liked our music because it really was our music. Our own synthesis, our own mixture of the musical streams we'd been exposed to.
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